[Tugindia] Fontsize Option in Article.cls

Manoj Kummini tugindia@tug.org
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:03 +0000 (GMT)


In an earlier thread, David Kastrup had written thusly,

> > > \documentclass[12 pt]{article}
> >                    ^
> > As an unrelated note: I doubt the option will be
> > recognized if you
> > shred it with a space in its midst.

to which Dileep replied:
 
> But, I feel that it is recognizing the option even
> with the space in between.

I too found that even with the space as in `12 pt' the file
size12.clo is loaded. Then I tried with `1 2pt' (:-)), and to my
surprise, found that size12.clo is loaded. How does this happen?

Manoj.

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